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| Anna Katharina Schwabroh | ... | Laura Portmann | |
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Martin Rapold | ... | Samuel Decker |
| Regula Grauwiller | ... | Anna Lindbergh | |
| Yangzom Brauen | ... | Miyuki Yoshida | |
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Pierre Semmler | ... | Pierre Lacroix |
| Claude-Oliver Rudolph | ... | Igor Prokoff | |
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Michael Finger | ... | Claudio Vespucci |
| Gilles Tschudi | ... | Klaus Bruckner | |
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Maria Boettner | ... | Arianne Portmann |
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Noa Strupler | ... | Mädchen |
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Diego Studer | ... | Kind auf Rhea |
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Vanessa Studer | ... | Kind auf Rhea |
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Christina Tchernychova | ... | Rhea TV Spot Modell |
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Roger Kaufmann | ... | Sicherheitspersonal Station 30 |
| Roman Güttinger | ... | Sicherheitspersonal Station 30 | |
In 2270, Earth is completely depleted and no one lives there anymore. Those that have money move to Rhea; but most of the population lives in orbit in space stations. Dr. Laura Portmann decides to work in the cargo ship Kassandra in an eight year travel to Station 42 that is in orbit of RH278 to raise money to meet her sister Arianne in Rhea. They keep in touch with each other, but their messages take three years to reach the other. Laura joins Captain Pierre Lacroix and his crew composed by the First Officer Anna Lindbergh; Communication Officer Miyuki Yoshida and Igor Prokoff and Claudio Vespucci. The Sky Marshall Samuel Decker joins the team since the terrorist group Luddites, led by Klaus Bruckner, is bombing the stations. Lacroix organizes shifts of eight and half months for each crew-member while the others rest in cryogenic sleep. Three years and eight months later, Laura finds that there is apparently a stowaway in the cargo compartments and Decker and Lacroix are awakened to ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A clichéd space science fiction movie with a mediocre story, lacking any surprises, and certainly suffering from some plot holes. However. The imagery is quite beautiful, the actors aren't bad, and the simple, unoriginal story is nicely told. So, it's a shame that these people, although they are obviously capable of making a film that is technically nearly faultless on a low budget, couldn't come up with a better, more interesting story to tell. I really liked the pacing of "Cargo", the certain calmness in the unfolding of events, a rather dreamlike, slow but unstoppable progression. If only this polished shell of a movie were a little bit more than this, a mere shell! Sadly, it isn't. Still, let's hope that this wasn't the last science fiction effort of directors Engler and Etter; I would very much like to see them adapting a better story.